THE PITTSBUEG DISPATCH, .SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1890.
ALL IS JOT LOVELY
Between Prince Bismarck and
the German Emperor.
SOCIALISTS GAIN GBOTOD.
They Will Present a Formidable
Body in the Next Reichstag.
DISCUSS1XG THE SAMOAN TEEATY.
Emperor William and the Iron Chancel
lor hare come to a radical disagreement con
cerning a question of Government policy.
The Socialists are cond acting an aggressive
campaign and will gain largely in the ap
proaching election. German newspapers
think that there should be no objection in
America to the Samoan treaty.
tCOrTBIOHT, lSSO, BTTnX NXWTORXABSOCIATXD
rnxss.1
Beblin, February L Daily incidents
strengthen the impression that there is a
serious divergence or views between Prince
Bismarck and the Emperor, or those having
the immediate confidence of the Emperor,
upon the proper course of the Government
on some important internal concerns. The
Prince's objection to the tone of the speech
from the throne has been commented upon
for some days.
Tne objectionable part was the reference
to labor troubles, and that Ton Berlep'ch
has been appointed to a place in the Min
istry, giving him control of those things,
practically in place of Bismarck, seems to
imply that the Emperor intends that those
things shall be pnt in the hands of one in
sympathy with the ideas set lorth in the
speech.
MTSTEEIOUS CONFERENCES.
"Within the past few days the Emperor
ha received successively all the leaders of
the different groups included in the Capital
coalition. The Emperor's silence embar
rasses the Government candidates as to the
ground they shall take in the campaign ful
minations, and the Prince has been asked to
seize the first occasion to make such a state
ment as would give to the candidates a key
note for their programme.
He was even specifically asked to take the
lead intheLowerHouseof thePrussian Diet.
He returned to this request an indefinite
response, which leit the impression that he
would make a declaration upon the eve ot
adjournment at a con crence of the Cartel
lsts. In the Landtag to-day it was an
nounced that the Cnancellor did not intend
to address the House.
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
All this adds to the conviction that there
is a difference of opinion in high places on
the interna policy, and suggests, moreover,
that the difference is of a serious nature.
In consequ nee of this statement it was de
cided to adjourn tne .Diet on the lltn inst.
until the 23d, when the elections will be
over and in the meantime to make another
effort to induce the Chancellor to give a
clear vote that should serve as a rallying
cry to the supporters of the Government.
The Rational Zeitung does not give any
insight into the intentions of the Govern
ment. It only continues to proclaim the
solidity of the Cartel combination and to
predict that there will ultimately be a full
agreement between the Government and
National Liberals on the expulsion of the
Socialists. But it avoids forming an elect
oral platform, and it has had no suggestions
applicable. to the actual situation ot things.
A BELIGIODS FLAN.
Prince Bismarck's letter to Herr von
Scbloezer, the German Embassador to
the Vatican, is published, obviously to in
fluence the opinions of Catholic voters. It
declares that the Government sees with
pleasure the establishment of Catholic mis
sions in German colonies, promises that all
religions orders shall be admitted, including
the Jesuits, and that all may rest assured of
the protection of Germany. Cardinal Bam
polla has responded, expressing the extreme
satisfaction of the Pope at this step, and
making his congratulations upon this fur
ther advance towards complete concord.
The appointment of Von Berlepsch to be
Minister of Commerce and Mines, is re
garded by many as an electoral ruse in
tended to catch for Government candidates
the votes of miners, pleased with the iancy
that the Government is ready to do great
things for them to make a law that will
reduce the hours of labor, increase wages
and generally protect the workingmen.
.This attempt at conciliation costs the Gov
vernmentbut little, and indicates mainly an
endeavor to modify the Catholic opposition
and draw workingmen with hopes away
from the magnetic agitators ot the Socialists.
THE ELECTION PBOSPECTS..
Forecasts of the results of the elections
are generally to the effect that the German
Conservatives, the Beichspartie and the
Center party will remain nearly intact; that
the German Liberals will lose several seats,
which will go to the Socialists. The
National Liberals are in the greatest danger,
as it is thought they will lose 25 seats.
The Socialists hope to increase their
strength from 11 iu the last Beichstag to 42
in the next, gaining 6 from the German
Liberals and 25 from the National Liberals.
Overtures were made by Herr Eugene
Bichter and other leaders ot the German
Liberals to the Socialists upon the proposi
tion to act in concert and agree that the
National Liberals should support a Socialist
where the combination might then defeat a
Government candidate, and that the Social
ists should support a National Liberal in
some other place where the scheme would
apply.
This sound political theory was not
favored by the Socialists, who preferred to
work by themselves everywhere without re
lation to doubtful allies.
A SOCIALIST PHALANX.
The new Beichstag is convoked for the
middle of March. It is likely to present a
formidable phalanx of Socialists, who, com
bining with the Center party and the Ger
man Liberals, will easily outvote the Gov
ernment groups.
The Foreign Office regards the agreement
in Bohemia as a triumph for the diplomacy
of Prince Bismarck and the personal in
fluence of Emperor William. Incessant
eflorts have been made by Prince Bismarck,
through the Prince de Keuss, the German
Ambassador at Vienna, to induce "Rmni-mr
Francis Joseph to adopt a policy to recover 1
lortne nermaua me greater snare in the
government of the Austrian Empire. The
semi-official declaration of the facts put
forth Irom Vienna admits that the foreign
policy of the Empire weighed with the Em
peror as a main consideration in the case;
that it was necessary to end race quarrels to
enable Austria to stand on an equality with
her allies in the triple alliance and be re
spected by Bussia as a soundly constituted
great power.
In consequence of the German trinmph in
Bohemia there is a project at Breslau. Em
peror Francis Joseph promises to be present
at the army maneuvers around Liegnitz,
when Emperor William has his headquar
ters at Breslau.
THE SAMOAN TBEATT.
Among the press comments on the Samoan
treaty there appears in the Frankfurt
Zeitung a notable criticism on the adverse
reception of the treaty by a section of the
American press. The Zeitung wonders that
any American paper could express dissatis
faction, seeing that the United States ob
tained everything it could desire. The
Zeitung has" sought in vain to discover any
good ground of discontent or any fair reason
for these utterances, and concludes that the
only possible motive for tbem is opposition
to Mr. Blaine, and an opposition that is
not to be softened, whatever he may
achieve.
Colonel Stoffel's pamphlet on a Franco-
German alliance excites the greatest inter
est The Solnische Zeitung says the idea
that Germany would buy peace from
France by a cession ol the imperial
provinces of Alsace and Lorraine is the
merest chimera; that no generation oi Ger
mans will ever dare cede an inch of German
soil soaked with the blood of its fathers.
The only advantage the Stoffel argument
has is the fact that now, while his country
men in France are wild with Bnssomania,
he warns them against the danger of Slav
dom and the influence of a vast barbaric
state in the councils of Europe.
AN UNHEEDED 'WABNTNG.
The Boisen Courier and the Xational Zei
tung consider this point and concur that
Stoifel's warning to France against an alli
ance with Czardom will fall on deaf ears
now, as did his warning in 1870 against the
precipitation of France, unprepared, into a
great war.
Emperor William will visit the Danish
Court at Fredensbonrg and remain there
several days in June. The Empress and
her sister Marguerite will accompany him.
The miners ot Eschweile having threat
ened to strike, the Nothberg miners took the
initiative and struck yesterday. The master
miners therefore decided that if the strike
extended they would close the mines. The
leaders of the men atonce stopped the move
ment, and the Nothbergers resumed and
will not strike again until after the elec
tions. NO TJSE FOB SOCIALISTS.
Ex-Minister Von Puttkamer is a candi
date for Stolp, in Pomerania. In address
ing a meeting of voters there he said, he ap
proved of the Conservatives voting against
the Socialist bill as it finally came before
the Beichstag, because that law, without
the expulsion clause, was like a knife with
out a blade.
He thought there was no prospect that the
new Beichstag would be more amenable
than the last one was to the views of the
Government, and that if the country was
lorced to do without the Socialist law there
was reason to fear that the minor state of
siege would be replaced by the full applica
tion of martial law. As a matter of princi
ple, the Socialist democracy must be denied
the right ot existence in any well ordered
State. '
KAPIDLI GAINING GROUND.
The Eltht-Honr Working Day Undeniably
Growlnc Mare Popular.
rBT CABLE TO TUX DISPATCH. I
London, February 1. The movement ia
favor of legislative enactment of an eight
hour working day is undeniably gaining
ground. The Socialists are everywhere agi
tating in its favor, and although political
organizations, as a rule, have declined to
commit themselves on the question, trades
unions are beginning to regard it with ap
proval. The question will form the subject
of an early debate in Parliament, Socialist
Cunningham Graham having given notice
of his intention by way of an amendment to
the address in reply to the Queen's speech,
calling attention to the Government's deci
sion to take no part in the eight-hour dis
cussion at the International Labor Confer
ence to be held at Berne, on the invitation of
the Swiss Government.
Meanwhile, the eight-hour agitators are
making arrangements for a great demonstra
tion, to be held by workingmen in Europe
and America simultaneously on the first of
May.
B0ULAKG1STS NOT ALL TAMED.
Some of Tbem Try to Ran a Porli Election
nnd Get Bonncrd.
BT CABLE TO THE VISFATCH.
London, February L The Boulangists
have not lost all spirit yet In Paris, in the
Thirteenth Arondissement, Friday, there
was a merry fracas, in which three men
were dangerously injured, over the election
of a deputy to take the place of Paulin
Mery, an invalidated Bonlangist. The
Boulangists endeavored to take possession
of the meeting, and were thrown out. The
Bonlangist element on English soil is tran
quil. Bochefort, after twice changing bis
residence, is now fitting up a mansion in
York terrace, overlooking Begent's Park.
Boulanger is in continual communication
with Bochefort aud with Paris, but he
speaks little about politics.
The Paris Figaro this week makes a dis
tinct charge that Boulanger and Bochefort
were frequenters of the Cleveland street
house kept by Hammond, and that they
were taken there by Broadley.
STANLEY AND HIS BOOK.
The ExpIorerThlnksIIo May Not Fill Two
Volume.
IBT CABLE TO TUB DISPATCH.
London, February 1. Stanley has writ
ten from Cairo to Edward Marston, who will
publish his book: "I believe the work will
be in two volumes, of from 450 to 500 pages
each. God knows there is matter enough,
but I would wish to deal very lightly with
the journey from Zanzibar to Zambuya,
that the book may be o'f as high interest as
the main theme, if curtailed of
lower Congo experiences. I cannot
as yet feel assured that it will extend to two
volumes. I have six notebooks, loaded with
matter extremely interesting. Three long
chapters are already written. I have, too.
a number of most interesting photographs of
scenery, sketches of incidents, etc., and
maps will be prominent features. I hope
the book will be ready in May."
Stanley adds that it vill be absolutely im
possible for him to entertain any proposals
to lecture this season, at least.
A GOOD MAN TO SEND HOME.
England Sendlne Over a Fellow Tried Five
Times tor Murder
TBT CABLE TO TIIS DISPATCH.!
London, February 1. There is a gentle
man on his way to America whom it might
be a good idea to send back to England.
His name is Dennis Connell, and he has
been tri-d five times at Maryborough and
Tnllymo e Assizes for the mnrderof Dennis
Daly in November, 1888. Nobody doubts
that Connell committed the murder, and his
accomplice, Laurence Hickej, has already
been executed.
It was found impossible to convict Con
nell, however, owing to lack of evidence,
and he was secretly discharged this week
upon condition that he left the country.
The English prison authorities were thought
ful enough to ship him to America instead
of the English colonies.
O'BEIEN IN NEED OP BEST.
HU Only Idle Momenta Are Those He Spends
In Jnll..
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
London, February 1. William O'Brien
has had a disagreeable reminder that there
are limits to human endurance. His highly
strung and nervous temperament is unfitted
lor the continuous and heavy strain which
he puts upon it, and as a result he fainted
twice in attempting to address an audience
at Leeds on Thursday.
The only rest the Irish patriot allows
himself is while in a cell. But Irish
prisons are by no means convalescent homes,
and the sooner William O'Brien recognizes
it the better lor himself and Ireland.
AT THE END OP HIS E0P.
Jubilee Jug-gins Penitence Doesn't Melt the
French Officers.
IBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, February L It looks very
much as if Jubilee Juggins were at the end
of his rope. He is still in a prison at Nice,
and the French Government is determined
to prosecute him. It now appears that the
forgery of Captain Hargreave's name is not
his first criminal offense, but that he has
taken similar liberties with the names of
others of his acquaintances.
Benzon is very penitent, and weeps copi
ously when his friends visit him, but that
will have little effect upon the officers of
French law.
FOE FEEE EDUCATION.
London's School Board Equal to the Occn
slon The Tory Organ Bitterly lOp
poses the Proposed Inno
vation School Fees
to be Abolished.
BT CtBLE TO TUX DISPATCH.!
London, February L The School Board
for London, an important body, which
looks after the educational needs of the
children of over 5.000,000 people, has
passed, by a large majority, a resolution in
favor of free education. The Liberal party
has been for some time past pledged to the
same policy, and there is reason to believe
that the Government, yielding to the pres
sure ot its Unionist allies, has decided to
bring in a bill in the coming session abol
ishing school fees.
To-day's Standard, the able organ of old
fashioned Toryism, has an editorial bewail
ing, -with comical pathos, the demoralizing
tendency of modern legislation. Why, it
asks, should the working classes have free
education any more than free food, clothes,
or lodgings? And it warns Tory parsons
and the upper classes generally that the
new system will inevitably prove the ruin
of the denominational schools, which are
regarded by hundreds of thousands of pious
Conservatives as the strongest barriers to
the flood of atheism and anarchy which
threaten to overwhelm this realm.
It is certain, therefore, that if the Gover .
ment persists in carrying out the intention
attributed to it it wifl alienate a large num
ber of its rank and file, unless, indeed, it
should have the audacity to propose a
scheme giving the church schools State as
sistance, without the corollary of State con
trol. The Liberals insist that every school
receiving State monevs shall be controlled
by popularly elected 'bodies, and if the Gov
ernment bili gives that, they will support it.
But several Tory members have already in
intimated that they will oppose such a
measure, and denominational bigots thiough
the country are threatening to abstain irom
the polls at the general election, unless they
have their own way.
ME. PAKNELL NOT INACTIVE.
He Promises Some Revelations That Will
Stnrilo the World.
BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, February 1. Mr. Parnell, al
though invisible, is not inactive. His
address to the Irish party sounds like a
clarion call. He has weighty work
on hand. It is believed that at
this session the question of home rule for
Ireland is to be settled. Mr. Parnell acts
as if he wished to have every di
rection. He will leave no stone un
turned to further the cause. He intends
to produce the whole mass of Piggott's let
ters, forgeries and all. Mr. Davitt, speak
ing of the forthcoming documents and testi
mony, says the revelations they will make
will "be the startling event of a worldjaded
with the proceedings of the special com
missions. Mr. Parnell no longer seeks his own vin
dication from the accusations of the Times.
In the interests of the cause be supports, he
proposes to disclose and denounce to the
world the nefarious conspiracy which was
formed against its leaders iu order to kill it,
and complete the investigation which the
special commission refused to allow him to
do and which it left undone.
QUARRELED LIKE TOMCATS.
Disgraceful Ron's of Royalty nt a Recent
Big Funeral.
BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCB.1
London, February 1. It has transpired
that at the funeral of the Duke d' Aosta,
Prince Napoleon and his son Victor, respect
ively father and brother of the weeping
widow, behaved like brutes and quarreled
like rival tomcats. They refused even to
shake hands, accused each other of political
plotting in France, revived family scandals,
and finally parted, scowling at and threat
ening each other, in the fashion of stage
brigands.
King Humbert, for the sake of his sister,
who is Prince Napoleon's wife, tried to
make peace, but failed,
PROSPECTS BRIGHT FOR PEACE.
The Czar Continues Building Many Ball
roads on Paper.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
London, February 1. The Czar and his
generals have been in frequent conference,
this week, and urgent orders have been is
sued for the early completion of certain new
strategical railroads.
We are consequently officially informed
that the prospects ot continued peace were
never brighter than now.
He Is a Dying Grnnddnke.
BT DUNLAP'S CABLE COMPANT.l
London, February 1. The Grandduke
Nicholas, uncle of the Czar, arrived at
Nice, to-day, for the benefit of his health,
as the world is informed, but his imperial
highness is suffering from cancer, and can
not live long.
SENI0RES N0N PRI0EES.
An American Mechanic Parade With
Jnniors to the Front.
There was a meeting of representatives
from the various Senior Councils of
United American Mechanics in the Moor
head building last night to consider the
invitation of the General Parade Commit
tee of Juniors to participate in the parade
on the 22d inst.
James Johnston was elected Chairman.
It was decided to accept the invitation.
The Seniors will parade as the Fourth
division and be subject to the orders of the
Chier Marshal. W. T. Powell, of the South
side, was elected Division Marshal.
It was hardly expected that the Seniors
would turn out this year, owing to the fric
tion that occured between the two orders on
Liberty street, during the parade last year,
the Juniors said the Seniors should never
be invited to participate again, but the mat
ter seems toaave healed over.
They Found Their Father.
A woman named Ateling, with five chil
dren, arrived in the city on an immigrant
train from Silver Brook, Pa., in search of
tne hnsband and father who had been em
ployed in the anthracite coal reeions, but
who was supposed to have come to Pitts
burg. With the aid orConstable Lintner, of
Alderman McGary's office, Ateling was
found at a boarding house at the bea.l of
South Eighteenth street, where the family
went.
Reuben Sillier ImproTing.
Mr. Eenben Miller, Jr., was slightly bet
ter last evening. He evidenced a considera
ble renewal of strength, and the family were
in a rather hopeful mood concerning him.
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of a Day In Two Cities Condensed
for Rendy Reading.
The Pleasant Valley line will pnt on all
nlgbt cars within a few days. Their bust.
ness necessitated the change. Tbey will be
run every 43 minutes, and if profitable every
half hour.
Mayor Peabson's report for the month of
January shows 246 arrests made by the police,
SS4D 70 receipts, and 163 fire alarms answered by
the patrol department.
JohnWithneb, who Is charged "with rob
bing the Arabian peddler in Allegheny during
the past week, has been remanded for court
trial in default of $500 bail.
These is some talk of building a new Meth
odist church in the East End. It is said the
congregation is too large for the present build
ing. A divobcb was granted yesterday in the case
of Mrs. Anna M. Spangler against John A.
Bpangler." Desertion was the allegation.
The school teachers will be paid to-morrow
for the month of January. The payroll foots
up H0.8S7 45.
The new Lawrenceville bank will be opened
to depositors to-morrow.
THE BOOKS COBKECT.
Satisfactory Audit of the Accounts of
the Treasurer of
LTflE IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Nearly a Quarter Million Dollars Sent
Across the Water.
ENTIRE CONFIDENCE IN MR. PARNELL.
Etnewed Efforts are to be Made to Assist In tie Flan
of Campaign.
The committee which has been examining
the accounts of Bev. Dr. Beilly, Treasurer
of the Irish National Land League, finds
them entirely correct. The sum ot ?23T,248
has been remitted to Ireland in the past
three years. No convention of the organi
zation will be called at this time.
Detboit, February 1. The following is
the report of the auditing committee of the
Irish National League:
To Hon. John Fltigerald, President Irlth Na
tional League of America:
Pursuant to request, the undersigned met at
the Russell House in the city of Detroit on
Wednesday, January 29, 1890, for the purpose
of auditing tbe accounts of Rot. Dr. Charles
C. Reilly, Treasurer ot the Irish National
League of America. We at once completed
our organization for work by electing Hon.
RIcbard C. Cushing, Mayor of Omaha, as our
Chairman, and Philip McCahill, an expert ac
countant of St, Louis, as our Secretary.
The committee then requested from your
self and tbe reverend Treasurer a statement of
tbe causes which induced you to call for this
auditing, and we learned from snch statement
that tbe last National Convention was beld in
Chicago in August, 1886, and that it has been
your desire and also the desire of tbe Bev. Dr.
Beilly to have a national convention called in
1887. 188S and 18S9, but that such convention)
nau oeen posiponea in ODoaience to tne wisnes
of Hon. Charles Stewart Parnell and bis asso
ciates concurred in by tbe Irish leaders in
America.
NO CONTENTION YET.
Wo learned that the parliamentary party in
Ireland still refuse to call a national conven
tion in America for reasons which to tbem ap
pear entirely satisfactory, tbe wisdom of which
your committee does not question. Our sessions
were beld with open doors, free to the public,
and tbe representatives of tbe press.
Your committee then proceeded tu the work
in band. We fonnd a model system of books
kept by tbe treasurer, consisting of a cash book
in whicb tbe daily receipts of moneys were en
tered, giving the name of the party remitting,
the name ot the organization (if any) raising
the money and the date and name of the place
from which tbe remittance came.
The cash book was also ruled with columns
showing various funds into which remittances
were aivided, with cross references to the
ledger when each fund was posted in detail.
These various columns were footed up and
carefully tested without finding any inac
curacy. Tbe credit side of the cash book shows
all disbnrsements and remittances and for
what purposes ordered.
Your committee also found aledger arranged
alphabetically in tbe order of States and coun
tries, with complete "indexes" for convenient
reference. In this ledger tbe treasurer had
grouped all receipts so that the sums received
from all sources could be seen, tested and ex
amined in any method suggested by the com
mittee. .
A CABEFUL EXAMINATION.
We examined each account with care, com
paring the same with letters of remittance and
other sources of information in order to test its
accuracy. We also compared, in detail, those
accounts with the credit side of the cash book
and the original vouchers of expenses, and we
report that in each instance we found the cor
respondence complete and the requisite and
satisfactory voucher on file for every expendi
ture. Tbe receipts for money sent to Ireland in
each instance were signed by either Joseph G.
Bigger, M. P.; Hvrlngton, M. P., or Joseph E.
Kenny, M P., or by two of these gentlemen,
and bearing upon their faces unequivocal evi
dence of their authenticity, including tbe in
ternal revenue stamp of the British Govern
ment. Tbe Reverend Treasurer then submitted bis
"letter books" to the inspection of your com-,
mittee, in wbicn we found" the letters written
by him and bis assistant on all subjects of
League concern. These books contain impres
sion copies of replies for remittances and a
historical narrative of tbe workings of the
Leacuo for three years.ln so far as the financial
operations are coucernea.
Your committee finds that tbe treasurer re
ported at tbe last national convention in Au
gust. 1SS6, a balance of 21,787, and that he has
since from all sources, as shown by schedule
herewith submitted, tbe snm of 257,922 79.
That he has paid oat for operating expenses of
all kind, a schedule of which we submit, tbe
sum of 322,225 17.
HELP FOB IEELAN3.
That he has remitted to Ireland, as shown by
his voucher, the sum of 237,213 OS, and pre
sented for examination and inspection of your
committee a certified certificate of deposit in
the Peninsular Savings Bank of Detroit on the
1st day of January 1890, for tbe sum of 20,
335 22, thus accounting for all sums received in
a manner unanimously approved by your com
mittee. Tbe item of expenses of 22,225 27 not
only includes the expenses incurred by holding
the last National Convention of tbe Irish Na
tional League of America at Chicago in Au
eust, 18S6, but also President Fitzgerald's sal
ary of 3,000, which sum was by him donated
back to tbe treasurv, thus leaving tbe actual
expenses at 19,225 27. being less than 7 per cent
of all moneys received.
We are led to say that upon the score of the
economy aud honesty tbe League is to be con
cratnlated on tbe admirable manner in which
its finances have been administered by the Bev.
Dr. Cbarles O. Beilly. to whom a deep debt of
gratitude is due fortbe onerousand responsible
duties so faithfully discharged by him. We
recommend that a full detailed statement of
all receipts and disbursements covered by this
report be published in pamphlet form and dis
tributed to tbe various branches of tbe League
and all contributors.
We further recommend that all books and
papers examined by this committee pertaining
to this report, be preserved and submitted to
the next National Convention for verification.
R. C. Cushing, Cbairman,
J. J. O'Connor,
Wm. J. Gleason,
Felix Carbkat,
J. W. Fitzgerald,
Martin Battle,
O'iirien J. Atkinson,
TnoiiAs P. Tcite,
Phil McCahill, Secretary.
CONFIDENCE XN PARNELL.
Whereas, Prior to our adjournment tbe
following cablegram wis received vDublin,
January 29, 1890. John Fitzgerald, Detroit rj
Parnell strongly advises that no convention be
beld by League in America at present Gen
eral election probably pending. Urge our
friends to redouble their efforts to place us in
position for the contest.
"Harrington and Kennet."
Therefore, resolved that we respectfully re
quest President Fitzgerald to issue a procla
mation to the Irish race in America in keeping
with tbe spirit of said cablegram from our na
tional representatives in our motherland, urg
ing tbem to renewed energies, and again mani
fest, as in the past, their .unalterable devotion
to Charles Stewart Parnell and tbe principles
of borne rule, of which be is tbe able, fearless,
incorruptible champion and the justly recog
nized leader of onr race.
Receipts from the August, 18S6, convention
of tbe Irish National League of America up to
January!, 1890:
Alabama 1,113 20 Dispatch,
Arkansas.... 532 50 8U Louis.. .$ 5,520 00
Arizona 5 (JO Montana 4,775 25
California.... 13,425 20 Nebraska.... 12,739 85
Colorado 3,532 15 Nevada 347 00
Connecticut.. 7,169 04 New Hamp-
Canada 16,706 85 sbire 705 11
Dakota 335 25 New Jersey.. 6,817 24
Delaware.... 931 00 New YorK... 23,965 33
District of North Caro-
Colnmbla.. 1,415 25 lina.. 202 11
Georgia 1,988 60 Nova Scotia. 2.76133
Idaho 59 BO New Brnns-
Illmois 6.632 69 wick., 787 44
Indiana 3,925 16 Ohio 9,356 74
Iowa 4.6SI 75 Oregon 1,922 60
Kansas 1.923 62 Pennsylvania 40,738 41
Kentucky... 2.579 15 Rhode Island 38,756 79
Louisiana.... 4,713 60 South Caro-
Mame 157 1)0 lina 800 00
Manitoba.... 5 00 Tennessee.... 311 80
Maryland.... 2,627 91 Texas 2,552 40
Massachu- Utah 762 40
setts. 31.901 66 Virginia 459 00
Michigan....' 4,340 85 Washington. 1.176 30
Minnesota... 5,141 13 Wisconsin... 6,666 00
Mississippi.. 32 00 Wyoming.... 10 00
Missouri. . . . . 7,722 15
Missouri Post Total 257,922 79
To balance on hand at last convention at
Chicago In 18SS, 2LS85 78. Total, 279,808 57.
SUB-DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Parliamentary fund 87,321 71
Anti-eviction fund 98,441 88
Parnell defense fund 80,103 82
Roll of honorfnnd 19,631 67
Tenants' defense fund 0,531 72
Mandevillefund 20 00
Total .'. I2H.049 80J
Remittances to trustees in Ireland:
1886-August24. H535 00
December 20 24,277 SO
188Wulyll. 24,256 25
October27 9.73 60
November2 .31 60
Novembers 0,731 50
1888-JannaryO. 14,572 50
January 26. 1,000 00
March S 24,425 50
July23 9.775 00
SeptemberSl 4.442 50
December 20 9,775 00
18S9 February 11 9,765 00
March 1 4.888 75
Aprils. 4,90153
November 1 39,180 00
November 19 2,448 75
December 13. 2,565 00
December 24 4,455 00
Total 237.218 08
August, 1888, to December 31, 1887:
Cnrrent expenses 8 11,345 79
1888 December 31 5,329 04
18S9 December 31 v... 6,550 31
Balance cash on band per certified
certificate of deposit in Peninsular
Savings Bank 20,335 22
Total 279,80b 67
Tbe foregoing statement is correct.
B. C. CusniNG, Chairman.
Pn. McCahill, Becretary.
SPEEDY EEYENGE.
How Major Raymond Came to Lose His
Job so Suddenly His Successor
I bo Author of a Well-
Knoira I.iitlo Dook.
rSFICTAL TILXOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Washington, February 1. To the sur
prise of everybody, Major Raymond, En
gineer Commissioner of the district, was to
day removed, and Lieutenant Henry M.
Roberts, of the Engineering Corps of the
army, appointed in his stead. The story is
that Mr. Mudd, the Maryland gentleman,
who is contesting for the seat in Congress
now occupied by Hon. Barnes Comp
ton, the other day requested the re
moval of a Democrat in a position
under the Commissioners, and tbe appoint
ment of a constituent of Mr, Mudd's, in
whose interest be exhibited a long indorse
ment, signed, among others, by Secretary
Blaine. The case was in the department
under the charge of Commissioner Biy
mond, who roughly refused to entertain the
proposition, and spoke insultingly to Mr.
Mudd. The latter left In a rage, vowing
that Baymond should be fired out of office
within three days. The row occurred yes
terday, Commissioner Baymond walked out
of office to-day.
Lieutenant Colonel Roberts has been sta
tioned in Eastern Pennsylvania lor years.
He is said to be one of the ablest officers in
the army, though modest aud retiring.
Speaking to-day of the appointment Secre
tary Proctor said:
Colonel Roberts was selected after a long in
quiry into the merits of the engineer officers
who were available. He had been very highly
recommended to tbe President, through me, by
General Casey, the Chief of Engineers, along
with a couple of others of secondary choice.
We studied the matter very carefully, and
hare just come to the conclnsion that Colonel
Roberts is the man we want. Major Raymond
took occasion to tell me, some months ago, that
he was quite willing to be relieved from the
duty, and so I suppose that this will not sur
prise him very mnch. Colonel Roberts Is a
very able man, and has tbe repntation of being
one oi tbe best engineers In tbe army. He is,
perhaps you know, tbe antbor of the well
known little book, "Roberts' Bules of Order,"
which has been adopted as a text book on par
liamentary lawalmost everywhere.
It may be interesting to you to know bow he
came to write that little book! YesT Well,
then, Roberts, you know, is a staunch, strong
Baptist, and he once attended a general con
vention of the church, where tbe delegates, be
ing men unlearned in tbe intricacies of par
liamentary maneuvering, eot into such a mud
dle over rules and such like, that scarcely any
business was done. Roberts had never paid any
attention to tbe subject, but this experience in
duced him to declare to himself that he would
learn something about parliamentary rnles. So
be applied himself, and made a specialty of the
matter, and the result was this little book
which has had a wonderful success.
FIVE MEN ENTOMBED,
And a Number Seriously Injured by a Fall
of Rock The Greatest Anthracite
Mine In the World Rained So
Flope of Rescue.
Wilkesbarre, February 1. A fall of
rock took place in the Nottingham shaft of
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
in No. 5 plane this morning which drove
tbe accumulated gas into the gangways
where ten men had been at work with naked
lamps and an explosion soon followed. All
the men were more or less seriously injured
and badly burned on the face, hands and
body. Peter Heim was cut upon the head,
his hands and face were badly burned.
John Crossin, with his mule, was buried
beneath tbe falling rock. His body has not
yet been recovered. John B. Humphries, a
miner, died while being removed from the
mine. His body was burned to a crisp.
Joseph Dunson, fire boss, was burned on the
face and hands; his injuries are said to be
fatal. Joseph Jones was fatally burned.
John P. Thomas was burned in the face and
hands. David Fox is seriously burned and
his recovery is doubtful, and Thomas Lake
was slightly cut on the head.
It has been learned that in addition to
these casualties five men are imprisoned in
the mine and there is little hope of their
being taken out alive. At the time when
the fall ot rock took place, John Dunston,
the fire boss, was on his way from the fifth
to the sixth Hit, carrying his naked lamp.
This, it is said, fired a body of gas, which
exploded with great force, shattering the
gangways and breaking the timbers, causing
large quantities oi rock and coaj to
fall. The debris closed the outlet for the
miners, who were in the interior of the mine
making repairs, entombing John Crossin,
David J. Williams, John Davis, Edward
Morris and an unknown man. It is not
known when those outside will be able to
reach these men, though it is firmly be
lieved that they are all dead.
The Nottingham shaft, which was the
greatest anthracite coal mine in the world,
is nearly a total wreck. It had at one time
an output of 3,000 tons a day, and netted the
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
500,000 profits last year.
Expanded Metal Lnthins-.
Perhaps in the whole range of the many
exactions made on the architect and builder
in the construction of a house, there is noth
ing that is more difficult of solution in a
manner satisfactory to all concerned than
the plastering. The conditions surrounding
this branch of the work are varied, and
have long been a fruitful subject of thought
and discussion. All difficulties have now.
however, been overcome by the adoption of
the metal lath, which is a frame work of
metal, in appearance something like the or
dinary metallic foot mat, only with larger
and more oblong-shaped meshes. By the
use of this metal lath, smooth, solid walls
nnd ceilings are secured, and as there is no
shrinkage or expansion, there are no cracks.
Each mesh is so, formed that the plaster,
properly applied, forms a perfect "key,"
and no' ordinary amount of wetting or
jarring alters the position in the least. One
ol tne greatest advantages appreciated by
bnilders is the ability to make groined
arches, coves and cornices of many shapes
by simply bending tbe metal to the
form desired, its rigidity preserving
the shape and obviating the use of the large
quantity of mortar formerly used. The ex
tent to which this invention will modify tbe
building trade will be understood when it is
stated that a building can now be con
structed at a less cost than a weather
boarded house, having all the exterior ef
fects of a stone structure, by covering the
studding on the outside with metal lath and
plastering with cement mortar, plain or
tinted, as may be desired, and marking to
represent cut, range, irregular stone or
carved work, as the taste of the builder may
demand. This makes a very solid and sub
stantial house, which is, of course, fire
proof. Photography In Astronomy.
Twenty-one observatories are now engaged
in the international undertaking of photo
graphing the entire heavens. Each ob
servatory will have to take about 700 photo
graphs in the zone assigned to it, and it is)
hoped to finish the work in three or fourl
years.
SOMEWHAT SOOTHING
The Depositors in One of the Three
Wrecked New York Banks
ASSURED THEY'LL LOSE N0THIKG.
Ex-President Leland Fats Up a Check' for
Half a Million, and
A BINDICATE WILL HELP HIM OUT.
Statements of Two of the Broken Banks Issued at
Midnhjat.
Depositors in the Sixth National Bank of
New York have prospects of getting back
all of their money. Ex-President Leland
has put np $500,000 toward paying them,
and says he has more if it is needed. At
midnight statements were issued showing
the standing of two of the wrecked banks.
rSrZCIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH.
Hew Yobk, February 1. The depositors
of the Sixth National Bank were comforted
to-day by hearing that they would get their
money. The assurance was backed up by a
check for half a million dollars from Charles
K. Leland, the ex-President of the bank,
who sold his shares in the bank for 650,
000, and turned over the bank and its
assets to the enterprising financiers who
emptied its safe. A syndicate of five pow
erful banks has come to the front, and will
make advances on the bank's quick assets,
in the shape of bonds and other securities
now in the possession of A. B. Hepburn,
the-National Bank Examiner. According
to the best authority the face value of these
securities is $1,774,000, so that with the
aid of Mr. Leland's check for f500,000, it is
pretty certain that the obligations to the
depositors, amounting to $1,800,000, will be
met. It will take several months to bring
about this liquidation, and as it is scarcely
to be presumed that the syndicate of banks
has come to the rescue from purely philan
thropic motives, it may be that Mr. Leland
will be called on for a further contribution.
A BECEIYEB TO COME.
The Controller of the Currency said at
Washington to-day that Examiner Hep
burn, in a letter sent on Friday, had pro
nounced tbe bank insolvent, and had ad
vised the appointment of a receiver. A re
ceiver would be appointed early next week,
alter the Controller had received Mr. Hep
burn's report, which will hardly reach him
before Monday. This was probably said,
however, before to-day's news had reached
the Controller, and it may be that the ex
penses of a receivership will be avoided.
Jt is not yet definitely known how the
minority stockholders will come out. Mr.
Leland "and his friends say that everything
possible will be done for the stockholders
alter the depositors have been taken care of.
F. D. Tappen, President of the Gallatin
Bank, who says he has worn out a set of
teeth talking about this case, is authority
for the statement that Mr. Leland's check
for $500,000 is only preliminary, aud that
more will be forthcoming from him, if it is
necessary.
SOMETHING SOOTHIXG.
Early in the day there were indications at
the Sixth National that something inter
esting and soothing was to happen. The
Bank Examiner had passed half the night
locked up in tbe bank with his assistants.
and had completed his investigation and
sent his report to Washington. With him
at the bank, to-day, were Mr. Tappen and
Mr. Wetmore, the latter counsel for Mr.
Leland, At 11:30 this notice was put np:
.dr. Leland has advanced funds sufficient to
guarantee payments ot depositors in full, at as
early a date as proper arrangements can be
made for tbatpurpose.
A. B. Hepburn, Bank Examiner.
The banks in the syndicate formed to take
the assets and pay depositors are the Galla
tin, the American Exchange, the Chemical,
the Merchants and the Bank of Commerce.
Tbey are to make advances on the securi
ties now in the possession of the Bank Ex
aminer, taking the securities as collateral.
It is the intention that, as fast as the depos
itors are paid, they shall sign a release of all
claims against Mr. Leland.
Mr. Tappen says that under the arrange
ment, as at present agreed upon, Mr. Le
land will take everything that is left after
the syndicate has settled with the de
positors, and the syndicate itself has been
settled with, and with other advances, if
necessary, from his own bank account, make
a just and equitable settlement with the
minority stockholders. Mr. Tappen's fig
ures make tne actual toss ot tne Dank to be
$700,000, as it was given in The Dispatch
on Friday.
MIDNIGHT STATEMENT.
At midnight the following statement of
the affairs of tne Equitable Bank was given
out by Chief Examiner Lawrence F. Cahill:
I find commercial uaDer. commonly called
loans and discounts, amounting to 151.823, a
portion of which seems to be secured by nomi
nal collaterals, at the value of which
I have not yet determined. Also,
United States bonds deposited with the
banking department, as a guarantee of good
faith, tbe market value of which is 81.210. The
cash on band is $2,2)5, and the furniture and
fixtures, including the safe, estimated to be
worth $500. There is due from banks the sum
ot $234 60, making a total assests of $160,593.
Tbere are said to be 300 shdres of Sixth Na
tional Bank stock hypothecated with another
bank, tbe par value of whicb is 30,000. tbe
market value of wbicb I have not yet de
termined. This will make the total jl90,59i
The liabilities are: Capital. $100,000; certified
checks, $4,435; due depositors. 831,118; due banes
(items not yet provenj, titfo,osj. xnis snows a
deficit of $f
:i43,oo3. xnere is atso
evidence of an
actual liability which does not appear ou the
books of the bank of $150,000 certincation. The
examination is incomplete, and will be contin
ued Monday.
LENOX BANE FIOUBES.
At the same hour Examiner Henry C.
Covell announced that he had that evening
reported an examination of the Lenox Hill
Bank. The liabilities are $549,292 55; the
total assets, $370,675 94, leaving a deficit
of $178,616 61. "The liabilities," said Mr.
Covell, "include the capital stock
ot $100,000. The assets on hand I have re
duced to a conservative point, and feel con
fident that the depositors will receive 70 to
75 per cent on their claims. There have
been found in the bank $145,000 in checks
made by James A. Simmons, and certified
to by the Lenox Hill Bank, which I con
sider worthless."
An Albany paper this evening says:
P. J . Claaes en, tbe wrecker of the Sixth Na
tional Bank, in New York, is a former Al
banian, at one time keeping a saloon on Upper
Broadway, near the New York Central Kail
road viaduct. When he went to New York,
some 20 years ago, be had little or no money,
and gave no promise of unusual financial
genius.
WOMEN AT WEDDINGS..
OvermnstcrlnB Cariosity to Get a Gllmpe of
the Bride.
NewTorkSnn.l
Outside of "society," the manners of
many of the guests at church weddings
would be considered exceedingly rude. Ata
very swell affair of this kind, which took
place recently in a fashionable churcb, tbe
curiosity of the guests so far overcame their
sense ot decorum that they stood up ou the
seats to see the bridal party at tbe altar.
At those points in the service where the de
vout are expected to kneel a curious specta
cle was witnessed. In a number of tbe
pews some women were kneeling while
others were standing on the cushioned seats.
Tbere were only about a score of men
present.
Metafile Frnmcvrork for Doot Solec
The principle of the new metal lath nsed
by builders has been applied by a Nurem
berg firm to the manufacture of boot and
shoe soles. Tne sole consists of a sort of
trellis work otspiral metal wire, tbe inter
stices being filled with gotta percha and
ammoniao resin, which gives both strength
and suppleness. They can be produced CO
per cent below the ordinary prices for
leather soles.
CHAEGES OF BRIBERY.
A Sadden Heasallon In the West Virginia
Gubernatorial Contest An InTeitl-
atlnc Com mil tee Appointed
Beginning- of lbs Work
of Inquiry
rsrXCIAXj TXLXGBAX TO THS DISFATCBt
Chableston, W.Va., February L An
unexpected sensation was suddenly sprung
in the Gubernatorial contest to-day. Jnst as
the final vote was to be taken in the joint
assembly Delegate Harr, a Democrat from
Judge Fleming's county, arose and offered
a privileged communication to the effect
that on a day early in the session he had
been offered $1,800 if he would vote to seat
Goff, and, in addition, was guaranteed the
State Mine Inspectorship. This offer, he
said, was repeated last night by A. B. S tail
ings, an engrossing clerk of the Senate.
The reading of the communication was re
ceived with derisive cheers by the Republi
cans. The Democrats immediately made a
motion to appoint a committee of investiga
tion. The motion provoked a bitter debate.
VanPelt, Democrat, of Fayette, charged
that General Goff was the fountain head of
all the corrupt influences about the Legisla
ture. Kee, a member of the Contest Com
mittee, made a similar charge, to tbe effect
that W. J. W. Cowden. Chairman of the
Bepublican State Executive Committee,
was implicated in an attempt to bribe him.
The charges created great excitement. The
Bepnbllcans declared that they courted an
investigation, and the motion to appoint a
committee was carried byauoanimous vote.
At 12:40 the assembly adjourned, alter a
hard battle. Two Republicans voted with
the Democrats on the motion to adjourn.
The committee appointed to investigate
the charges of bribeiy preferred by Dele
gate Harr met this evening, and examined
Harr. He corroborated his statemejt of
this morning, and added that Stallings had
stated the $1,800 was to come from Goff,
and that he could have the office of Mine
Inspector (an office at the disposal of the
Governor) if Goff was elected. Stallings
irill be examined Monday.
ELECTION FRAUDS.
Serious Charges Made Against tbe Utah
Gentiles by Their Harmon Foes The
Entlro Machinery In the Hand
of tho L'brrnls.
Salt Lake City, February 1. Ex-Inspector
John Bonfield, the famous Chicago
detective, in an interview this evening,
with Editor Dougal of the Deseret
News repelled the charge that
there was a Mormon plot to
implicate the Liberal or Mormon leaders,
through detectives, iu a variety oi scandals,
and thereby defeat tbe Liberal party in tbe
coming election in Salt Lake City. Captain
Bonfield said:
1 came here Incognito last November at tbe
instance of gentlemen who feared that tbe
frauds at the Ogden City elections would be
repeated here. I was requested to do nothing
more than obtain proofs of election frauds.
Conversing with Liberals or anti-Mormons,
tbey admitted that the People's
party, or Mormons, bad a majority of the legal
voters, but tbey claimed to have the courts, the
election judges, tbe returning boards, etc.. in
the Liberal interest, and meant to carry tbe
elections. 1 detailed detectives to obtain evi
dence of fraud.
One of tbem furnished false information. I
discharged him. He went over to the Liberals
and registered as a voter. Indisputable facts
from other sources show beyond doubt that
the Begistrars hunted up and registered Lib
erals, but evaded the People's voters. Two
went by special train to the Colorado line and
unlawfully rezistered eanes at railroad
camps and way stations, turning many other
names to any other registrar on tram.
Hun-
dredsof names of non-residents
have been
placed on tne lists, many never taking tne reg
istration oatb, and their residences being
omitted to make legal objection difficult and
prevent action to get the names stricken off.
new journalistic ybhtobe.
A Republican Evening Paper to be Lannehed
In the Metropolis.
Kansas City, February 1. A syndicate
in which B. H. Corrigan, of this city, not
long ago connected with the Kansas City
Globe, is interested, in which, it is
also believed, Stephen B. Elkins
has an interest, and of which M. H.
Stevens, some years ago managing editor of
the Kansas City Journal, will assume the
direction, has acquired that portion of the
plant of the New York Graphic not sold at
auction last Tuesday, which in
cludes the furnishings or the ed
itorial and composing rooms and of the
business office will, within a fortnight,
lannch in New York an evening paper to be
named the Republic
Politically it will be Bepublican. Mr.
Stevens departed for New York to-day, and
will at once begin active preparations ior
the initial issue of the projected paper.
Aa Interesting Collection.
An interesting collection of native imple
ments and arms from the country on the
Amazon river has been received by a well
known rubber company in this country.
Among other things, there is a complete set
of the implements and utensils used in gath
ering and curing rubber gum, and what
adds to their interest is that every article
has been in actual use. There are the rude
clay cups which are stuck to the rubber
tree to catch the flowing sap, the large
earthen jar covered with wicker work,
which the native straps on his back, and
into which be empties the little cups while
passing from tree to tree, and the paddle
with which he smokes or cures the sap. now
coagulated into gum, over the fire. Other
articles illustrating the danger by which
the collection of the rubber sap is attended
were also exhibited, and among them were
splendid specimens of bows and poisoned
arrows. One bunch of the latter was nsed
by warlike natives in an attack on the rub
ber gatherers, and one of the broken arrows,
still marked with blood, was taken from the
body of a Spanish girl killed in the attack.
Those Sobo Sneak Thieves.
Sneak thieves entered the house of J. W.
Williams, on Center avenue, near Soho,
last night while the family were absent, and
stole an overcoat and a gold-headed cane
from the hat rack in the hall.
JUST TICKED PE0M THE WIEE.
Fbistox Ware, Jr., tbe famous chess
player. Is dead.
Grain shipments frem Baltimore yesterday
amounted to 408.507 bushels.
The Holland Ministry has resigned owing to
tbe rejection of tbe colonial budget.
Tschioob yesterday won the sixteenth game
of cbess from Gunsberg at Havana.
One hundred and xiguxtt-thbeb for
eigners landed in New York yesterday.
In Little Uruguay, in 15 days, 4.000 persons
have been seized with grip. The President
has it.
J. W. Pabkxb, a Burlington, Kan., forger,
was arrested at London. Ont, tolday. Extradi
tion papers are being awaited.
Hundreds of Canadian lumbermen are re
turning from tbe Michigan forests to Stratford,
Ont., because of a lack of work.
Skcretakt Proctor and family, and Sec
retary Busk and family, will leave Washington
to-nigtt for a short visit to Fortress Monroe.
Archbishop Corbkjan, of New York, Is
in Rome. He is to have an audience with the
Pope and will then start Immediately for Pal
estine. Ex-Seroeant at Asms Lxxdox has re
ceived a telegram from tbe Mayor of Terre
bonne, Canada, saying that Silcott has not been
in that place.
The hair spinners in Wllkins & Co.'s factory
at Baltimore have struck because the firm is
teaching some apprentices to be hair spinners.
Tbe union forbids It,
DIED.
JOYCE On Saturday, February 1, 1S90L at 6
p. m., Ellen, daughter ot Patrick and Bridget
Joyce, In tbe 18th year of her age.
Funeral from the parents' residence, 21 Penn
avenue, on Monday, at 9 a. x. Friends of the
family are respectfully invited to attend.
IN ABSOLUTE WANT.
A Startling Story of the Great Desti
tution of Mrs. Parnell.
THE HOUSE IS A PERFECT EDU,
And There ia No Fael of An j Kind to Warn
the Structure.
A BEGGAE WOULD HOT BE SATISP1H)
With tbe Heager Fare Iffirded by the Old Women's
Scanty Larder.
A visit to the house of Mrs. Parnell shows
an unexpected state ot destitution. The
bnilding is in ruins and there is neither coal
nor wood to be found. Mrs. Parnell admits
speculating in stocks and says the money
raised for her was nsed in paying pressing
debts.
ISrXCIAL TXLXOBAX TO TITS SISrATC&t
Bobdentotvjt, K. J., February L Sto
ries about the destitntion ot Mrs. Parnell
have been published from time to time dur
ing the past six months. So many
and so conflicting were the accounts
that people could scarcely bring
themselves to believe that the stories
were any store than idle gossip.
As fast as these stories appear in print they
are followed by denials from people more or
less competent to express an opinion front
their real or supposed knowledge of facts or
from their intimacy with the family.
In order to get at the actual facts and set
at rest all doubts upon the subject, a DIS
PATCH correspondent to-day called at the
home of Mrs. Parnell. The house is a largo
structure, and was once a comlortable place.
NOT EXACTLY A PALACE.
To-day it is nothing more than a ruin.
The window sills are shaky, and the doors
are breaking with their own weight. The
wind whistles through every part of the
house, and the roof lets in both sun
shine and rain. Mrs. Parnell was found
sitting in a large room, bare of
fnrmtnre except a tew chairs and a table,
her leet encased in a pair of old rubbers and
wrapped in what had once been a dress.
Tie only heat in the room came in from tha
sun. Fire tbere was none, nor even a stove.
Apologizing to the reporter for the absence
of a fire o$such a cold day, and requesting
him to take the only remaining chair in tha
room, Mrs. Parnell resumed her seat and tha
reporter stated tbe object of his visit. Mrs.
Parnell was at first reluctant to enter upon'
the story or her poverty, but the facts being
so patent she finally consented to answer a
few questions.
"How is it that yon do not have a fire on
such a cold day, Madam?"
NO FUEL THESE.
"There is no wood nor coal in the house."
"How long have you been withont fire
wood?" "Some six weeks now."
"And you have bad no fire in the house in
all that time?"
"Only in the kitchen where I have a small
fire for a short time each day to prepare my
simple food."
"Of what does your food consist?"
"Oatmeal and potatoes principally; some
times I have a little bread."
"Have you any source of income at pres
ent?" "None whatever."
"How do you mansge to get along ?"
"My wants are very few indeed, and I
can live comfortably on ?25 a year."
"Yon received a large sum of money front
the public some time since, Mrs. Parnell.
Would you mind telling what use you made
of it?"
HEB EXPLANATION.
"It went to pay pressing debts."
"All of it?"
"Every cent, and more would have gone
that way had I had it."
"The amount of money which was sent
you has been variously stated at different
times. Will you please tell me tbe exact,
amount?"
"The total amount which I have received
from all sources is $1,250."
'It is stated, Mrs. Parnell. that your pres
ent destitution is due in part to yonr pro
pensity for speculating in stocks. Is this
true?'"
"Like many other rumois, it has some
foundation in fact. I have, it is true,
bought stocks on the market, hoping they
would rise in value and thereby enable me
to pay off my debts."
"And your speculations did not turn out
well?"
"No, on the contrary, they were very un
fortunate." SHE "WANTS A PENSION.
"It has been stated that von intended ia
apply for a pension on account of your
father's services."
"Yes, I hope to get something from the
Government some day, but they are very
slow in Washington.""
The reporter then asked permission to go
through the house, which was granted,
Nearly every room has been stripped of fur
niture and carpets, and the house is de
cidedly desolate looking. In the kitches
and larder there was a small basket of pota
toes, a few pounds of oatmeal and som(
crusts of bread. The goods and chattels in
the entire house would not pay for moving.
Mrs. Parnell states that she is sorry that
the story of her poverty has become publio
property, and regrets that when a publio
movement was made in her behalf, entirely
without her knowledge. President Fitz
gerald should have deemed it necessary to
interfere iu tbe matter by stating in an in
terview that she did not require assistance,
and if she did her son would help her.
PABNELL HAS NO MONEY.
Mrs. Pamell states emphatically that her
son has no means of his own; that all tbe
money given him has been sunk in his en
deavors to resuscitate Irish industrial enter
prises; consequently, althongh he has al
ways been aa affectionate and dutiful son,
she expects no assistance from him. Here
tofore he has from time to time assisted
her, notably a few years ago when he saved
the place from being sold for taxes.
Mrs. Parnell wishes it to be distinctly un
derstood that she does not aporal for charity
to any one. one is now in ner iotn year
and considering her circumstances she is ia
excellent health and spirits. The outlook
for her is dark, and it is difficult indeed to
see what the future will be unless she ap-'
plies to the connty Tor relief. To-day there
is in the house neither fuel nor monej and
the small supply of coarse food would not
be accepted by a starving beggar.
Blending; Rnbbor.
The following mode of repairing rubber
boots is recommended: Dissolve small pieces .
of non-vulcanized rubber in warm spirits of '
turpentine to the consistence of thin mow'
lasses. Eub the patch and boot thoroughly',
with sharp sandpaper. Smear both with
liquid rubber five times, letting them dry
each time. At the sixth application apply
the patch with strong pressure to the boot.
A more expeditious way of effecting repair,
is adopted by the Sonth American traveler.
In the Brazilian forests are quantities of a
tree called the Mangaba, the milk or sap of '
which has many of the properties of the gen- ,
nine India-rubber tree, and msy some day
be used in its place. By spreading some of
this milk on a piece of cloth somewhat
larger than the a'rea of the hole to be re
paired, filling tbe stocking with sand, or
sticking the prepared cloth over tbe hole,
and then coagulating the milk by the ad
dition of a little acid, the rent place has
been rendered stronger than any other part
of the stocking, for it will never come off. ;
Clothes of all kinds, including boots and
rubber cloaks, are patched in the same ready
and serviceable way.
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